chanty

Noun

Meaning

a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

Source: WordNet

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"Paddy on the Railway" is attested as a chanty in the earliest known published work to use the word "chanty", G. E. Clark's Seven Years of a Sailor's Life (1867). Source: Internet

This song is a sea chanty written no earlier than the 1820s, and so could not have been sung in 1815. Source: Internet

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